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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Jansson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:53:57PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > I see that the original predicate code is released under LGPL, but
> >
> >    // Licensed under the GNU GPL Version 2.
> >
> > has been added at the top of GeometricPredicates.h. Is this an issue? 
>
> No, this is not an issue. LGPL material can be relicensed as GPL by
> anyone.

OK, I thought that it probably worked something like this.

> > Also, the line
> >
> >    // Copyright (C) 2006 Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, Johan Jansson.
> >
> > is GeometricPredicates.cpp is ambiguous. Has the code been modified much?
>
> Yes, you're right. It's me being unsure of the convention. It should
> be:
>
> // Copyright (C) 1999 Jonathan Richard Shewchuk
> //
> // Modified by Johan Jansson 2006.

Looks good.

Garth

> The modifications are quite limited (compiler issues, wrapping).
>
> Formally it doesn't matter though, since if you write something you
> have copyright to it, regardless if you write a copyright statement or
> not. But it's good that we have a convention for tracking authors.
>
>   Johan